Alice Tornquist, a Washington lobbyist for the high-tech firm Qualcomm, took the stage at a recent Qualcomm-underwritten conference to remind her audience that companies like hers face a dire shortage of university graduates in engineering. The urgent remedy she advocated was to raise the cap on visas for foreign-born engineers.

The 24 day talking point comes from a misunderstanding of the following explanation from Wikipedia:

If IAEA inspectors have concerns that Iran is developing nuclear capabilities at any non-declared sites, they may request access "to verify the absence of undeclared nuclear materials and activities or activities inconsistent with" the agreement, informing Iran of the basis for their concerns.[32] The inspectors would only come from countries with which Iran has diplomatic relations.[34] Iran may admit the inspectors to such site or propose alternatives to inspection that might satisfy the IAEA's concerns.[32] If such an agreement cannot be reached, a process running to a maximum of 24 days is triggered.[32] Under this process, Iran and the IAEA have 14 days to resolve disagreements among themselves.[32] If they fail to, the Joint Commission (including all eight parties) would have one week in which to consider the intelligence which initiated the IAEA request. A majority of the Commission (at least five of the eight members) could then inform Iran of the action that it would be required to take within three more days.[35][36] The majority rule provision "means the United States and its European allies—Britain, France, Germany and the EU—could insist on access or any other steps and that Iran, Russia or China could not veto them."[35] If Iran did not comply with the decision within three days, sanctions would be automatically reimposed under the snapback provision (see below).[36]﻿

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